Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

With renewed interest in the health risks asocciated with glyphosate, Ash Ellwood ponders what is fact and what are merely 'claims'

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Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

A real hot topic that has been circulating over the last few weeks is the use of glyphosate. We all know it plays a huge part in conventional rotations, predominantly for weed control but also for growers...

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